The civil servants that help keep Boston up and running are profiled as they go about their jobs in this six-part documentary, a follow-up to 2000's `Hopkins 24/7,' which chronicled life at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.

A detective patrols the streets of his native Roxbury; a chef oversees a busy kitchen at one of the city's tonier restaurants; a rookie prosecutor still seeks his first conviction; a paramedic born with only one hand doesn't let her disability hinder her performance. Sylvia Chase narrates.

A homicide detective investigates a murder in which the victim is decapitated; an ER doctor treats major and minor injuries at a children's hospital; a woman in the district attorney's office advises victims of domestic violence. Sylvia Chase narrates.

Mayor Thomas Menino engages in a labor dispute with the city's firefighters; a lesbian police officer describes the troubles she faces on the job; a rookie prosecutor goes for his first win after leaving private practice. Sylvia Chase narrates.

A principal at a Roxbury high school deals with the pressure of a teacher-student dispute; a prosecutor maps out her strategy for an alleged rape case; a second-generation firefighter talks about his work and how his father was killed in the line of duty. Sylvia Chase narrates.

Premise: The civil servants that help keep Boston up and running are profiled as they go about their jobs in this six-part documentary, a follow-up to 2000's `Hopkins 24/7,' which chronicled life at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.
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